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"We have participants from across the United States and abroad," said conference director Anne Greene. Approximately 120 experienced writers, new writers, and those who love to read are expected to attend, she said.
Last-minute entrants can register with Greene.
Rush, who is the author of a trilogy of stories and novels exploring the contemporary Western presence in southern Africa, has never been a speaker at the conference, Greene said. Two of the books in Rush’s trilogy have received the National Book Award -- "Whites" and "Mating."
Stone has been a frequent speaker at the Wesleyan conference, Greene said.
A National Book Award winner and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Stone will read from his highly-praised novel "Bay of Souls," which links life on the Plains with vodoun practices in the Caribbean, she said.
The conference invites a range of participants -- people who love to read or want to find a writing group, beginning writers, and experienced writers, such as journalist Tom Hallman.
Hallman credits his recent Pulitzer Prize to the assistance he received at Wesleyan University.
"I give hope to every writer who attends (the) conference," said Hallman.
The conference includes seminars, lectures, readings, workshops, talks with editors and agents and optional manuscript consultations, according to officials. Daily seminars, taught by a faculty of award-winning writers, focus on the novel, short story, fiction and autobiography, poetry, literary journalism, and memoir.
Other speakers include Philip Gourevitch, who reports on the presidential campaign for The New Yorker; Colson Whitehead, fiction writer and MacArthur award winner; New Yorker profile writer Larissa MacFarquhar, author of a recent piece on the director Quentin Tarantino; poets Peter Gizzi and Maggie Nelson; Elizabeth Schmidt, poetry editor of the The New York Times; and editors, publishers, and agents.
To register, contact Anne Greene at (860) 685-3604 or agreene@wesleyan.edu. Wesleyan Writers Confer-ence information is also available online at http://www.wesley-an.edu/writers.
